Cigar-bunching machine



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F. G. MILLER. CIGAR BUNGHING MACHINE. No, 494,929. Patented Apr. 4, 1893.

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P. G. MILLER. 019919 BUNGHING MACHINE.

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FRE'DRICK o. MILLER, oF NEWPORT; KENTUCKY.

CIGAR-BUNCHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,929, dated April 4, 1893. Application filed August 20, 1892. Serial No. 443,612. (No modelJ To @ZZ whom tmc/y concern:

Be it known that I, -FREDRIOK CHARLES MILLER, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Oigar-Bunching Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of my invention is a cigar bunching machine in which long iller cigars can be readily made, said machine being adapted for simple manual feed and consisting essentially of a filler carrier having abottomless pocket, a fixed table having a projecting end forming a temporary bottom for the pocket While in tillin g position and aspace or aperture located beneath the bottom of the pocket when the carrier is retracted; an perating cam and connections to impart the reciprocating movement to the carrier to advance and retract the pocket; bunch rolling mechanism beneath the table; ahorizontally oscillating bunch receiver and plunger-s serv` ing to discharge the llers from the carrier pocket and the bunches from the bunch receiver, thewhole operatingin time movements as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figu re I is aplan vieuT of a machine, illustrating the invention. Fig. Il is a detail plan of the ixed supporting bed. Fig. lll is a side view of the machine. Fig. 1V is a front view thereof.

A represents ka ller carrier formed with a bottomless pocket czand having a reciprocating rectilinear movement upon a fixed support-ing bed or table B, between guides h2. The fixed table B is formed with a projecting end b which, when the filler carrier is advanced sofas to bring itsfpocket a into the filling position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. I, forms a bottom for the pocket. Back of this projecting end the fixed table has an aperture b' with which the pocket a registers when the carrier A is retracted to discharging position.

The reciprocating movement of the filler carrier A as imparted by a cam C through the medium of rocking levers D and links E by which said levers are connected to the reciprocating carrier. The rotary cam C is carried by a shaft C which is preferably driven by a clutch pulley C2. The operating shaft C also carries rotating cams H I J K. The revolving cam H actuates a bellcrank lever h connected by ak link h to a rod F guided in avertical path and carrying plungers F F2 the former serving to eject the filler from the ller pocket o', and deposit it in the bight or pocket of the rolling apron 9 While the plunger F2 serves to discharge the previously formed bunch and deposit in the mold N as hereinafter described. The cams l J actuate rocking levers ,j respectively, and a third rocking lever jg fulcrumed atj1 is actuated by a rocking cam J of the shaft of the lever j. The bunch rolling apron9 rests in customary manner upon a convex rolling table l0 and is attached at its respective ends to the upper extremities of the rocking levers '1I andjs, tho cams I and J being suitably formed to draw and relax the rolling apron 9 at the proper times to permit the intermediate lever j actuated by a suitably' formed rotary cam J and having at its extremity a roller ji to press the bight ot the apron around the cigar filler which has been deposited on a binder upon the'apron in customary manner, roll the same over the convex rolling table 10, and discharge the finished `bunch over the edge of the said table. The levers 1T, j are kept in contact with the faces of operating cams I J by tension springs 2,32 respectively. This bunch rolling mechanism is described more in detail in Letters Patent No. 147,116, granted to me November 26, 1889. The finished bunch as it is discharged from the rolling table l0, is caught bya bunch receiver L having oscillating movement upon the vertical shaft Z by means of the pinion Z and a segment rack m upon the extremity of a lever m fulcrumed at fm2 and operated by the cam K, the groove k in which engages with a pin or stud m3 upon said lever m. The outer movement of the oscillating bunch receiverLcarries the bunch around beneath and in the path of the plunger F2 by the descent of which the bunch is ejected by the bunch receiver and is deposited in one of the matrices of the mold N.

The above mechanism actuates the filler carrier A the plungers F', F2, the bunch rolling apparatus and the oscillating bunch receiverL in time movements as described. An automatic device is employed to communicate a step by step movement to the mold N so as to bring the successive matricesin position to roc receive a bunch. This consists of a rack bar O upon which the mold N is mounted, actuated by a reciprocating pawl Q, which is pivoted to arocking arm R upon the rock shaftv retracted, an operating cam C, levers D and links E connecting the cam with the filler carrier and imparting oscillating movement thereto, to advance the pocket a into receiving position and retract it to discharging position; the bunch rolling mechanism beneath the table B; a horizontally reciprocating bunch receiver, and plungers F', F2 havingl vertical reciprocating movement to discharge the fillers from the pocket a and the nished bunches Y cated in rear of the projecting end and beneath vthe bottom of the pocket when the carrier is from the bunch receiver as herein described. 3o

FREDRCK C. MILLER. y

Witnesses:

W. S. RICHARDSON, H. R. FREY. 

